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Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by massalati(m): 1:04am On Aug 13, 2020
)please i want to learn programming but nobody to teach me and i don"t even know where to start (i will pay,
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Nobody: 2:00am On Aug 13, 2020
c Lang, java, php
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by ericmor: 4:28am On Aug 13, 2020
King44:
can you share with me when you get it?

No problem, if he send it

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Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Akinbiodun: 6:46am On Aug 13, 2020
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Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by clockwisereport: 6:46am On Aug 13, 2020
God1stson:

@ UNN ELECTRONICS. I remember back then, when electronics guys be complaining of Java, we in mech will be complaining about fluid mechanics ME351and 551.

we did not do Java.

We did C and Arduino
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Nobody: 7:03am On Aug 13, 2020
stanliwise:
JavaScript Although I later dumped it for my true love PHP. Don't ask me why
why
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Nobody: 7:05am On Aug 13, 2020
am learning Python now and am focusing more on hacking with it
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by bammo: 7:13am On Aug 13, 2020
SegFault:

There are areas in programming where people haven't touched much yet, in fact that section is for the computer scientists. But honestly there are too many so called programmers on NL I can imagine how many there will be in Nigeria, and they are all foolishly aiming for the same field, that's why I laugh at those who force themselves to learn programming, very soon give it time it will fade away and the fields that would be open would be so hard that non radicals would step aside.
Sir, I think u should keep quiet.. no knowledge is a waste, especially programming knowledge
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Kennyking1234: 8:45am On Aug 13, 2020
massalati:
)please i want to learn programming but nobody to teach me and i don"t even know where to start (i will pay,
You can learn
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by witnezHD(m): 8:46am On Aug 13, 2020
wale377:
Python.... very easy to learn
easy as how
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Grandlord: 9:01am On Aug 13, 2020
ibromodzi:

Even Eliza that was built in 1966 passed the Turing test.
Holy cow!
Man, I went to find out how far they've gone with GPT3, since it's been a while I followed it's development. I must say it's scary and impressive, what the guys at OpenAI have been able to create.

So basically GPT3 has the ability to transform English description to codes and that's bad for coders as it signals the beginning of an end to coding, ushering in the No-Code era.
I think it's the web developers that are going to get hit the hardest. A shift to a career in AI itself should be considered.

But then again, AI only thrives on what we feed it. And the question would be whether AI is creative enough to generate new codes an designs, better than human's.

Also, will these codes be bug-free and efficient? Or do we still need to spend hours debugging an fixing them? Which in that instance, would be counterproductive to the original purpose for which it was developed. Interesting times ahead.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Najdorf: 9:32am On Aug 13, 2020
Dyonne:

You play chess?
Yep.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Najdorf: 9:33am On Aug 13, 2020
NaijaElba:

What field is your interest?
Ethical hacking and AI.

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Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by gracefoundmme(m): 9:40am On Aug 13, 2020
winterfell007:


Me too!! Team php both now and forever more
Yes ooo

And its highly sought after for in naija market
Especially in our higher institutions
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by XXII: 11:53am On Aug 13, 2020
Jobia:
Dumped it right after the sem. Went more into python.

Different how? C syntax is kinda similar to Java in my opinion.

Oh, okay. Cool. Same thing here, we were taught a bit of Java in school, I dumped that and now focusing on Python. Maybe later on I could check it out again, though a friend said that python isn't the best language to start programming with.
How advance in Python programming are you?


Really? I thought it's C++ that's similar to Java.
Though I've not tried checking C out.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Nobody: 11:58am On Aug 13, 2020
XXII:


Oh, okay. Cool. Same thing here, we were taught a bit of Java in school, I dumped that and now focusing on Python. Maybe later on I could check it out again, though a friend said that python isn't the best language to start programming with.
How advance in Python programming are you?


Really? I thought it's C++ that's similar to Java.
Though I've not tried checking C out.

There is no right language to start programming with, you'll only be wasting your time. Best is to find a stack and focus appropriately. At least, this is what I learnt.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by XXII: 12:05pm On Aug 13, 2020
ThreeBlackBird:


There is no right language to start programming with, you'll only be wasting your time. Best is to find a stack and focus appropriately. At least, this is what I learnt.

Oh okay thanks.
But in his opinion, he said that starting with Java or C++ is better than with python. That one could easily learn python and some other languages once the person has knowledge of the aforementioned languages.

Since I've started with Python already, I'll just focus appropriately as you said. Thanks.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by barragan: 12:31pm On Aug 13, 2020
massalati:
)please i want to learn programming but nobody to teach me and i don"t even know where to start (i will pay,

You can learn on your own. There are apps and website that will teach you. E.g Sololearn.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by LoyalRccgMember: 1:33pm On Aug 13, 2020
massalati:
)please i want to learn programming but nobody to teach me and i don"t even know where to start (i will pay,

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Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by massalati(m): 2:24pm On Aug 13, 2020
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Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by massalati(m): 2:25pm On Aug 13, 2020
barragan:


You can learn on your own. There are apps and website that will teach you. E.g Sololearn.


thanks boss
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by ibromodzi: 6:01pm On Aug 13, 2020
Grandlord:
Holy cow!
Man, I went to find out how far they've gone with GPT3, since it's been a while I followed it's development. I must say it's scary and impressive, what the guys at OpenAI have been able to create.

So basically GPT3 has the ability to transform English description to codes and that's bad for coders as it signals the beginning of an end to coding, ushering in the No-Code era.
I think it's the web developers that are going to get hit the hardest. A shift to a career in AI itself should be considered.

But then again, AI only thrives on what we feed it. And the question would be whether AI is creative enough to generate new codes an designs, better than human's.

Also, will these codes be bug-free and efficient? Or do we still need to spend hours debugging an fixing them? Which in that instance, would be counterproductive to the original purpose for which it was developed. Interesting times ahead.
Now you get the gist. That powerful software is going to affect many developers, not only web devs. It is capable of generating database queries, it can generate machine learning algorithms, source codes, it is capable of writing poem etc... Of course it still has some flaws that they are trying to address. IMO we are still yet to see a truly intelligent system.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Sleekfingers: 8:43pm On Aug 13, 2020
massalati:
)please i want to learn programming but nobody to teach me and i don"t even know where to start (i will pay,


learn online....register with online schools....or you can teach yourself...download some free materials and invest in books....
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Nobody: 5:39am On Aug 14, 2020
XXII:


Nice!
So are you very familiar with the C language, say advanced or intermediate level?
I heard it's very different to learn.
It isn't. It's simple and base, it's greatest problem. But you can use it for anything, though it will be stressful to use it for web development but yah you still can.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Nobody: 5:42am On Aug 14, 2020
XXII:


Oh, okay. Cool. Same thing here, we were taught a bit of Java in school, I dumped that and now focusing on Python. Maybe later on I could check it out again, though a friend said that python isn't the best language to start programming with.
How advance in Python programming are you?


Really? I thought it's C++ that's similar to Java.
Though I've not tried checking C out.
C is the grandfather of C++, Java, C# in fact all curly bracket languages out there. If you want to maybe go into embedded systems or operating system development (though you would need assembly language) check it out.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Nobody: 8:48am On Aug 14, 2020
XXII:


Oh, okay. Cool. Same thing here, we were taught a bit of Java in school, I dumped that and now focusing on Python. Maybe later on I could check it out again, though a friend said that python isn't the best language to start programming with.
How advance in Python programming are you?


Really? I thought it's C++ that's similar to Java.
Though I've not tried checking C out.
Really? I'd say its the opposite, python syntax is relatively easier to grasp. As a beginner it's less likely to scare you away from programming.

I'd say intermediate.

What area of python programming are you into?
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by avalon7(m): 9:06am On Aug 14, 2020
Hello Guys smiley I'm thinking of learning Web design i already know python. Can anyone please advise me on the tools i need and other things i need to learn
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by avalon7(m): 9:09am On Aug 14, 2020
Jobia:
Really? I'd say its the opposite, python syntax is relatively easier to grasp. As a beginner it's less likely to scare you away from programming.

I'd say intermediate.

What area of python programming are you into?

Python is probably the easiest programming language to learn and is in high demand. People who know python get compensated more than people who use c++ .
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by avalon7(m): 9:11am On Aug 14, 2020
Sleekfingers:



learn online....register with online schools....or you can teach yourself...download some free materials and invest in books....

Were do you stay? I have a full course on "Python for research" from Harvard including videos and assessment and projects.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by XXII: 10:06am On Aug 14, 2020
SegFault:

C is the grandfather of C++, Java, C# in fact all curly bracket languages out there. If you want to maybe go into embedded systems or operating system development (though you would need assembly language) check it out.
Okay, bro. Thanks.
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by XXII: 10:11am On Aug 14, 2020
Jobia:
Really? I'd say its the opposite, python syntax is relatively easier to grasp. As a beginner it's less likely to scare you away from programming.

I'd say intermediate.

What area of python programming are you into?

Yeah I agree with that. Python syntax is very easy. At least easier in comparison to Java. Also the lines of code are less.
But he was like, one wouldn't get the entirety of programming, starting with Python. Something like you can easily learn Python if you have knowledge of Java, but the same isn't the case for vice versa.

Anyway, I've decided to stick with Python for now.

Okay, that's cool. I hope to use Python for ML, AI and the likes.
I've not yet gone fully into that though. Wby?
Re: What Was The First Programming Language You Learned And Why? by Sleekfingers: 10:48am On Aug 14, 2020
avalon7:


Were do you stay? I have a full course on "Python for research" from Harvard including videos and assessment and projects.

in lagos

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